After the transmogrification hype died down a bit, I strolled over to my local auction house on the Horde side. I was doing my normal daily scan of items to flip, when I came across the Shields up for bid/buyout. My mouth almost dropped when I saw a Skullflame Shield up for 25,000 gold! I remember selling this same shield before Cata for maybe 5000 gold at the most. I went to check the rest of the shields and saw low level shields going for slightly more than what their stats and levels would otherwise dictate. I realized that the transmog die hards viewed shields as a major transmog piece of gear due to their instant transformation from mehville to coolsville. I went to my own bank on my horde toon and realized I had a large amount of shields (both twink and non-twink) that might net me some profit. Excitedly, I went to the Undermine Journal and started looking up the prices on each shield for my realm and faction. I had collected around 50 shields from dungeons, auction house deals, etc. I found that I had a pretty nice collection that I could put up on the auction house for transmog purposes. I put up maybe 10 of my 50 shields to see if I could get any bites. I logged off for the night.
The next day after breakfast, I leisurely logged on to my horde to do his daily fishing/cooking quests when I noticed I had mail. I checked my mail and to my delight, I had sold 9 of the 10 shields I put up in the auction house the night before. I netted around 5000 gold on these shields! I proceeded to put up 5 more shields and within two days, I sold all 6 of the shields. I have been doing this for around two months and would like to share my own personal Top 5 Shields for transmog to sell on the auction house. All 5 of these shields are based on my personal preference and profit as well. Please keep in mind that these prices are tentative based on each realm’s supply and demand.

Skullflame Shield – 

Probably one of if not the best looking shield in the game as of now. This skull spews fire from around it making it very easy to identify on any toon’s back or arm. This shield can command anywhere from 20k-50k on the auction house. This shield is a rare drop from 55-61 level mobs. Although, you can farm Mana-Tombs Heroic for a similar shield: The Fel Barrier which has around a 25-30% drop rate (Nexus Prince Shaffar can drop this shield), interest in the Skullflame shield is still high at the auction house.

Zom’s Crackling Bulwark –

This is another rare and cool looking shield with a moving circular motion inside the shield. This shield has been sold on  my realm for close to 15k. It can drop from any level 75-80 mob. There is an alternative to this shield: Stormshield Renewal which is a 12-15% drop from The Black Stalker in the Underbog Heroic dungeon.  Once again, farming is something most don’t enjoy doing, so they will go to the auction house and spend the gold instead.

Crystal Pulse Shield- 

A very nice and world drop that has been peaking on my server’s auction house lately and has a unique look. This shield sold for 5k. It can drop from almost any level 60-70 mob. This shield has a nice pulsating light emitting from the middle of it.

Don Gonzales’s Shiny Shield:

A very nice world drop shield with a unique symbol and shape to it. This shield has gone for 3k-4k on my realm. It can drop from almost any Cataclysm mob. The shield has also been known to be found in silken treasure chests as well.

Ward of the Red Widow – 

Last but most definitely not least is a rare drop from Beth’tilac (The Red Widow) boss in Firelands comes a nice shield which as commanded around 15k-20k gold on my realm. This shield is a very unique one with a wicked design. The drop rate has been rumored to be around 1%.

Honorable Mentions:

Troll Protector – A very simple wooden shield with a cool design on it.
Aegis of Stormwind – A nice light blue shield which looks like Alliance should wield it.
Garrett Family Crest – A nice red shield that might look better for a Horde toon.
Mountainside Buckler – A nice triangle shaped shield which is glimmering and shiny.
The Green Tower – A simple rectangular shaped shield that is…you guessed it..green.

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This gold making blog post is being written as an entry into the March WoW Gold Blogging Carnival over at Cold’s Gold Factory.  Each month at Cold’s Gold Factory, a variety of WoW gold bloggers contribute articles all written on a specific topic chosen by the gold blogging carnivals host.  Be sure head over and check out all of the other great entries in this month’s carnival.  This month’s carnival topic asks us:

Using your knowledge that you have gained from auction house experience:  If you were starting over as a gold maker, what is one thing you would do differently than the first time, and why?

How Would I Change The Ways I Made Gold In WoW?

The biggest and most obvious change that I would make is that I would have started using auction house add-ons much much earlier. 

Back when I first started blogging, I often would talk about how I used hardly any add-ons at all.  The main reason I was so adamant against using auction house add-ons was because I wanted to feel like I had a sense of accomplishing the gold making aspects of World of Warcraft completely on my own.  I did not need add-ons to do it for me.  I was doing all of the math, the cross references, the comparisons, the spreadsheets, and every single thing that an add-on does for you.  I have a brain and could think on my own.  I didn’t need some stupid add-on to tell me what to do.

I also felt that a heavy dependance on auction house add-ons was a crutch that players leaned on too heavily.  By not using add-ons, I was unhampered on patch days, when others were stuck scrambling to find work arounds for their add-ons.  While those players were lost, I was still able to plug away on my auction house routine.

My other fear was that a reliance on add-ons would lead to a weaker understanding of the auction house markets.  I still believe that to this day, but since I made it to the Wrath gold cap without any add-ons I had a pretty good understanding of how all of the markets rise & fall and interact with each other.  I still don’t think a player should jump right into ways to make gold on the auction house by using add-ons.  You should learn how the markets interact and how the ebb and flow prior to installing the auction house add-ons. 

Today I wish I would have started using the basic WoW auction house add-ons much earlier.  Not immediately, but once I had a good understanding of how the WoW auction house and WoW gold making systems worked together.  Auctioneer was a great tool that helped save me a lot of time once I finally started using it.  Then when I finally made the switch to the Auctionator / TradeSkillMaster combination I really started to save a ton of time.  Less time in the auction house, meant more time for actually playing the rest of the game.  Add-ons can decrease your time relisting, posting, crafting, researching, purchasing, comparing, farming, and barking. 

So don’t be afraid of using add-ons to help you make gold in WoW.  I do recommend getting a basic understanding of the auction house before installing auction house add-ons.  If you do, your overall gold making process will flow more smoothly, you will understand what the add-on is actually doing, and you will be able to go back to the old fashioned approach when your add-ons get broken after patches.

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Making Gold In WoW Isn’t As Hard As You Think

Anyone can make gold in WoW.  Whether your goal is to reach the 1 million single player gold cap or just to make enough gold in WoW to pay for your in-game WoW expenses, you can do it.  With a little studying, practice, and experimentation, you can be rivaling the best gold makers in no time.  For a little goblin, the World of Warcraft auction house can be a scary and intimidating place.  The big question is where do you start?  What market should you get into?

Make Gold In WoW – Where To Start?

There are a ton of markets and niches to choose from when making gold in the World of Warcraft acution house.  There are a ton of craftable items you could make.  There are items to buy for cheap and sell for a higher price.  There are vendor recipes to buy and flip for more gold.  Items you loot can be sold for more on the auction house than an npc vendor would pay you.  It’s all confusing for a new player or a new auctioneer (little goblin).  Here is my best advice I can give to anyone looking to make gold in WoW and get started in their first auction house markets.

Start With What You Already Know

Yes, that’s right.  Start with what you already know.  What type of player are you?  Each individual player has more knowledge in some areas than other areas of the game.  This individual learning is derived from what types of activities you have the most experience from within the game of WoW. 

When I first started in the auction house, I had 1 main character, my Rogue Skinning Leatherworker.  I liked to quest and was questing all over Azeroth.  How did this help me?  One of my very first niche markets I entered (back in Vanilla WoW) was the “Quest Required Items” market.  My love of questing had compiled me a nice long list of items that I found were needed for specific quests or subquests (remember Dire Maul-North Tribute Runs?) in the game.  Because of all of the questing I had done, my personal experiences led me to sell items that I too at one point had to craft myself or purchase to complete those quests.  Some of those items I sold within the “Quest Required Items” market were:

• Deadly Blunderbuss (Ashenvale Quest)
• Mithril Casing (Amy-E Ape Escort)
• Thorium Widgets (Frost Trap In DM-N)
• Darkmoon Faire Turn In Items (Old Darkmoon Faire)
• Weapons and Armor Specialty Quests (Blacksmithing Specs)
• Advanced Target Dummy (Centaur Quest Chain)

I posted what I knew about to get me started making gold in WoW.  As I learned more, I expanded my markets. I didn’t sell those weapons and armor required for the Blacksmithing specialty quest chains, until I had leveled my Blacksmith. 

Ideas For You To Make Gold In New Markets

If you PvP you understand what PvP players use more than a non-PvP player.  If you are a tank, you have a better understanding of what gems amd enchants a tank would use.  If you are a Twinker, then you understand twink gear, twink enchants, and twink buff items better than most.  If you are into completing armor sets for Transmogrification, then you understand the market better than any non-moggers. 

Maybe you are a rogue.  If so, you know how hard it can be to find good daggers while leveling.  I was on a constant look out for nice +agi leveling daggers to flip for a nice profit.  I learned that strictly from being a dagger using rogue myself. 

So think about what you do and what you already know and buy for your own characters.  Something within your current knowledge is the best plae to start looking to make gold in WoW.  Once you have mastered a few of those markets, then you can start to look into newer markets for even more ways to make gold.

Anyone else have any good examples of first markets they entered because they already knew the ins and outs from regular in game experience?

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New Players – New Opportunities To Make Gold

Lately in World of Warcraft, we have been seeing the influx of new players that got WoW for Christmas.  These new players are entering the game and are a new source of income for those of us that are into making gold in WoW.  While many of these brand new players can’t afford much from the auction house yet, there are a few areas that you should pay special attention to.  It has been proven year after year that the influx of new players creates new opportunities to make gold in WoW.  Let’s take a look at a couple of historically accurate markets as well as a brand new market that these new players will help contribute to.

Netherweave Bags

The first major problem that any new player runs into is not having enough bag space.  Netherweave Bags have long been the standard for new players.  Even after breaking a million gold, I am still crafting and selling those dang Netherweave Bags.  Why?  They are one of the most consistent items in the game, since they are bought by both alts and new players.  With the wave of new players ntering WoW since Christmas, I have seen the sales of NW Bags pick up.  They are even selling for close to double what I would normally sell them for.  So don’t forget to keep your tailor making those Netherweave Bags.

Poorly Priced Items

With an influx of new players, comes an influx of poorly priced goods on the auction house.  New players don’t really have a good grasp on what items are really worth.  They just tend to try out the auction house first by selling the items they collect while questing.  Instead of selling them to the npc vendors, they may experiment with trying to sell the same items for more on the auction house in WoW.  Many times you will find items listed for far more than they are worth.  Bottle-neck crafting tems like Perfect Deviate Scales, Large Fangs, Spider Silk, Slimy Murloc Scales, and Heavy Hides are good examples of items that you can find for cheap.  So be sure to keep looking for good crafting materials that may be tossed up at too low of a price.  Then you can use those in crafting or simply to flip for a profit.

Transmogrification Gear To Flip

Transmogrification is an emerging market, still in its infancy on many servers.  Transmogrification, however, is a new market for making gold in WoW.  Like the poorly priced crafting materials mentioned above, you will see low level armor tossed up on the auction house for very cheap.  If you are able to find some of the gear that is part of a set then you can probably make easy gold flipping the items to a much more appropriate price.  I myself have been buying green (uncommon) robes that are unique looking or have a cool pattern on them.  I turn around and flip those sames robes to Moggers (short for Transmogrifiers) for 400-450 gold each.  Robes are a low entry cost market and a good area to get your feet wet with the emerging Mogging trend.  Originally I wasn’t too hyped on the whole Mogging market as a gold making strategy, but I was wrong.  The Mogfather (@DEAzeroth on twitter) has opened my eyes to the huge profit potential of playing within the gear markets for transmogrification.  And now is a great time to build your stock levels as new players are throwing stuff on the auction houses at incorrect prizes.

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We hear the goblins say it all the time… “time is money, friend!”… but do we ever stop to think of what that really means?

It’s not just a cliché from an NPC telling us to hurry up with whatever business we’re conducting with them, but rather it is a secret formula that leads to unheard of profits within the game.

Let’s look at some basic auction house secrets explained by some simple clichés.

Keep Your Nose To The Grindstone!

Over on Hearthcast, Carnage gives a weekly tip with a grind that results in pretty good returns. That grind usually involes going somewhere, killing someone, and looting something… over and over again, then taking that something you got frome someone somewhere and selling it on the auction house for crazy gold.

Location, Location, Location!

Patterns, recipes, limited quantity items, and tradeskill ingredients are bought from vendors for mere silver and sold on the auction house for easy profits every day.

One Mans Trash is Another Mans Treasure!

BOE items you can’t use for any of your toons, items you bought with extra Justice Points, raw materials from gathering skills, things from random chests or lockboxes… even some trivial grey items that you fished up… all of them hold a value to someone else on the Auction House

Another Day Another Dollar!

When I was conducting the “Phatwallet Experiment”, (where i took a level 1 toon, ported to a major city, was given 100 gold, and could only make gold by way of reselling vendor items or relisting auction house items) I practically lived at the AH. I spent hours each day scanning the auctions, looking for deals. I made a ton of gold, the key being the consistency in which I was performing my actions.

Measure Up To The Business At Hand

Here’s a secret for you: whenever I leave the game to look up information, and I have to actually “work” for that information, I make a mental note of it. Case in point, Winter Veil and ginger bread cookies. I had a slightly difficult time locating the vendor in Orgrimar who sells the recipe. The information online wasn’t all in one place. It took effort to find out who sold it, their general area, and their name. Once I found them (10 steps away from the quest giver),I bought 21 recipes. One for me, 20 to list on the Auction House…. at 10 to 15 gold each. I sold out within minutes, and went back to buy more.

Laughing All The Way To The Bank

When I make a big sale on the Auction House that fits into the clichés above, it makes me giddy! I smile, and sometimes laugh, at how easy it is sometimes to make gold on the AH in WOW.

So remember, when you’re wandering about Azeroth, pay attention to the very things around you – they could be untapped piles of gold!

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I was an avid Auctioneer user, up to patch 4.3, which left me with a broken addon making the Auction House rather useless to me. By Auctioneer not being up to speed with their add on, they gave me no choice but to seek another solution.

Auctionator Proves To Be Better Than Auctioneer For This World Of Warcraft Auction House Player

4.3 left me with a broken Auctioneer, but gave me the opportunity to expand my horizons by allowing me the opportunity to install Auctionator.

Within just a few moments after installing Auctionator, I was incredibly impressed – and slightly confused.

I visited the Auction House, and, logically, scanned the AH. Instead of the 20+ minutes Auctioneer took, I was done with the scan within seconds. What had I done wrong? Nothing. It’s simply a better system. (Time is money, friend!)

Auctionator Basic Setup

Enable alt-key shortcut allows me to alt-click an item in my bag and have it automatically post to the AH.
The other options are pretty straight forward, but you can easily see they’re designed to save the user time.

Auctionator Tool Tips

Again, pretty straight forward tool tips. These will give you very good pricing information on the items you loot. I like to get the individual price first, and then the stack price when I hold down the shift key.

Auctionator Undercutting

FINALLY, a semi-decent way to logically undercut someone! These are the defaults it comes with. You’ll most likely want to tweak those settings out a bit for your server. I am so happy to have options in an undercut market place!

Sellling With Auctionator

In Auctionators Basic Options, my default tab is set to SELL, and my bags automatically open up. That means as soon as I interact with the Auction House NPC, I’m ready to go. Then I just Alt-Click on the item in my bag, and it’s posted up for me.

I will point out that you need to tell Auctionator how many stacks of how many you’re going to sell. 2 stacks of 20, 4 of 10… your choice. It does tell you the max, but it can be hard to see, as it’s kind of greyed out under the option box. As soon as you make your choice, it will create the auctions you set.

Buying With Auctionator

Sometimes, you gotta buy.. ok, a lot of the time… and, Auctionator makes it super easy. Shopping lists? Remembering what I searched for? REALLY? AWESOME

Small Eggs are a wonderful investment (and even better if you farm them!). People will toss a stack of 20 up for 20 gold, but when a seasonal even that requires Small Eggs comes up, they’ll easily sell for 40-50 gold… And, of course, Auctionator makes it easy to buy multiples!

Auctionator Checks For Undercutters

While there are some other addons that do this for you, I like that this one is inside Auctionator. You scan, it tells you if you’re being undercut, and then lets you start cancelling your auctions.

Click the start cancelling button, and it does the work for you…

Then simply relist the items to undercut the person undercutting you – let the wars begin!
Coincidently, when I was screen shotting this stuff for this article…

I managed to make a quick couple hundred gold!

I also mentioned on Twitter that Auctionator pulled in an accidental 2K for me. It’s true. While I was toying around with the features to decide if I wanted to stay with Auctionator or wait around for the other guys to figure things out, I found over 2K gold worth of stuff I had lying around, over priced, or poorly listed. With just the help of the tool tips and the scans, I was able to turn 2K in less than 30 minutes, all by accident.

Why Auctionator Proves To Be Better Than Auctioneer For This World Of Warcraft Auction House Player

Speed Of Auction House Scanning

More Fluid Options For Selling

Better Undercutting Scanning

Tool Tips With Options!

Shopping Lists!

Designed To Sell And Make You Gold!

It’s my honest opinion that Auctionator was extremely well thought out, and that with just a few moments of tinkering, the average player could be easily on their way to making gold in the Auction House.

I installed Auctionator using the Curse Addon Manager. It was painless, and I highly recommend it as the tool for the World of Warcraft Auction House
~Rewt

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Gobble Gobble Nom Nom: It’s XP Time!

It’s that time of year again WOWheads: Pilgrim’s Bounty! Not only can you get a title and a free pet turkey (who you can’t cook and serve at the dinner table) but you can also get some massive XP from the daily quests and level up your cooking quick and easy. Pilgrim’s Bounty starts on November 20 and ends November 27. One full week of eating, cooking and questing can fill any player up to last until next year (or the next major world event).

Roasting Skill Points in Cooking:

Cooking is a pain for most who don’t level their cooking as they level their toon. There are many level 85’s walking around who only know how to make Spice Bread. Whether you dislike cooking or just don’t’ have the gold/meat/fish for leveling it up, Pilgrim’s Bounty offers plentiful recipes with plentiful skill points for your Cooking profession. There are 5 recipes that one can learn whether you are level 1 or level 85. Each recipe also creates a food that gives buffs respectively.

• Spice Bread Stuffing can be learned at level 1 and can level your character’s cooking up to level 100
• Pumpkin Pie can be learned at level 100 and can level your character’s cooking up to level 160
• Cranberry Chutney can be learned at level 160 and can level your character’s cooking up to level 220
• Candied Sweet Potato can be learned at level 220 and can level your character’s cooking up to level 280
• Slow-Roasted Turkey can be learned at level 280 and can level your character’s cooking up to level 340

The best thing about leveling your cooking during this once-a-year world event is that the ingredients are very easy to obtain. The herbs, pumpkins, cranberries and potatoes can be purchased at your city’s Pilgrim’s Bounty vendors. The wild turkey can easily be farmed in Elwynn Forest (Alliance) and/or Tirisfal Glades (Horde). The wild turkeys drop from wild turkeys and lonely turkeys respectively. Let me point at that you do not have to be Alliance to farm in Elwynn Forest nor do you have to be Horde to farm in Tirisfal Glades. If you choose to farm in an area mostly occupied by the opposing faction’s players, be forewarned that you might be flagged PVP if you venture too close to that faction’s city or town.

Daily Quests for You Gobblers

There are 5 daily quests for each faction that all players can participate in. Completing these five daily quests can yield xp, silver/gold and 1 of 6 Pilgrim’s Bounty items. Here is the list of the five daily quests that can be completed during the Pilgrim’s Bounty week:

• We’re Out of Cranberry Chutney again?
• She Says Potato
• Don’t Forget the Stuffing!
• Can’t Get Enough Turkey
• Easy As Pie

Here Turkey Turkey

So you want to go for the Pilgrim title and the free plump pet turkey? There are a list of achievements you will have to complete in order to receive your title and pet. Do keep in mind that achieving the Pilgrim will not count towards the achievement What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been (which rewards one with a Violet Proto-Drake flying mount). Here is the list of achievements you will need in order to get your Pilgrim title and pet:

• FOOD FIGHT
• Now We’re Cookin’
• Pilgrim’s Paunch
• Pilgrim’s Peril
• Pilgrim’s Progress
• Sharing Is Caring
• Terokkar Turkey Time
• The Turkinator
• Turkey Lurkey

Pilgrim’s Bounty is a very fun and great way to level up your characters either via cooking or daily quests. So get out your turkey shooter and go hunt those wild turkeys!

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Here is a response from a listener of the Auction House Junkies podcast where Wes of

CappedbyCata.com and I, Cold of ColdsGoldFactory.blogspot.com, teach you how to make

gold in WoW. Reading gold blogs is just one way to get your information on ways to

make gold in WoW. Don’t forget to check out the WoW gold making podcast options for

a different delivery method. Some players love the gold blogs, some listen only to

the podcasts, but a wise goblin will both listen to gold podcasts and real the gold

making blogs.  Read more about Barking MFCs and get tips for Barks.

An Auction House Junkies And Mysterious Fortune Card Barking Testimonial

Dear Cold,

I recently discovered your podcast "Auction House Junkies" and I have to 
say I love it so far. I'm trying to catch up with all the episodes I 
missed and am really impressed by the way you guys go through things. 
Usually when I see a gold making technique it is all about "What to do 
for getting money out of it", but you guys really go through the 
mechanics behind it, why an item sells and what it's used for, which 
actually helped me understand the market better and develop my own 
gold-making techniques, so for this, i am really grateful ! I really 
hope this podcast will see many more episodes coming !

Now as I am writing this email, I am still under a certain adrenaline rush.
I had decided to drop tailoring. I thought it wasn't a profession for 
me. And after hearing all you said about mysterious fortune cards, i 
decided i would give it a try. Inscription is a profession i hadn't 
looked enough into and that still seemed interesting to me.

It was a pain to level since it's really hard to find level-appropriate 
herbs. It took hours, and a lot of money, at some point I thought I was 
going to give up, until i finally reached the holy 450. I started 
leveling from there solely on Mysterious Fortune Cards.
I put them for sale on the auction house and waited for hours, and 
nothing had actually happened. The sales were really average, and I 
ended up with quite a lot of leftovers, I was a bit disappointed by the 
technique I must say.

Then I remembered you said "If you don't bark, people won't buy it", and 
I Decided to give it a shot. I'm not good with barking and annoying 
people on the trade chat, but I was kind of desperate since all my 
economies had gone into that market.

I sent a message on the trade chat, and I SWEAR in a matter of...what, 
seconds? About 10 seconds at most, my chat was flooded with "A buyer has 
been found for your auction of Mysterious Fortune Cards" and all my 
stock was gone in not even a minute !!

This happened about 15 minutes ago as i am writing this email and I'm 
still all excited and already waiting next to my mailbox to get the 
money and start buying more herbs to repeat the process.

That's all for my little story. All I want to add is a big THANK YOU. 
Thank you for your amazing tips, thank you for your awesome podcast, and 
thank you for keeping all the AH-addicts like me entertained !

Best regards !

-Reeve
Worgen Druid, EU Azjol-Nerub

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Want To Find Cheaper Raw Materials On The WoW Auction House?

Many of us goblin gold makers in World of Warcraft steer clear of farming our own raw materials like herbs, skins, and ores.  We know that is a much better time investment to just purchase the materials at profitable prices from the WoW auction house.  I’m not saying that we never farm for raw materials, but only in the most dire of circumstances or when we need a high demand, low supply item (like Khorium).  Being that we are tied to buying our raw materials predominantly from the WoW auction house, we can only use the auction house prices of raw materials for determining the crafting costs and potential profits.

If the prices of those raw goods we need to craft aren’t at acceptable prices, then we must turn to our stockpile of stored raw materials.  If our stockpile of WoW crafting raw materials is empty, then we are severely handicapped in our ways to make gold in WoW.  I highly recommend shopping for raw crafting materials on a daily basis, regardless of whether you will be using them immediately or not.  Always having a  stockpile of raw materials purchased at reasonable prices to fall back on, will help weather the pricing spikes that you may see in the auction house.

How To Find Cheaper WoW Auction House Materials

One may to make more profit per sale is to find cheaper raw materials.  When your costs to craft is cheaper, then you can sell for less and still make a profit or you can sell for the same prices and have more profit built into each transaction.  Here are the 2 best tips I can give more finding cheaper raw materials on the WoW auction house.

1. Weekends see a flood of players and a flood of items on the auction house, which usually leads to cheaper prices on the weekends.
2. Morning shopping gives a better chance for cheaper materials than shopping throughout the day.

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